All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be….

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work..

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility..

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition..

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about….

It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were ha….

There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather caref….

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand..

I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam..

I don't much like looking back..

I get a great high from writing..

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences..

Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box off….

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man fa….

I'm not even against superheroes. It's not my cup of tea. But there's just this endless stream of them and they are so repetitious and suspend certai….

I'm always happy to talk to somebody; it's flattering that people remember your movies. Especially some movie that you did, for Christ's sake, almost….

Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations..

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not ….

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy..

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall..

I tend not to look back. It's confusing..